>If Diderot ever said that, he was quoting Jean Meslier (1664-1729):
>
>"Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je
>voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier
>prêtre."
>
Translation:
I would like, and it would be the last of my most ardent hopes, I would like that the last of kings were strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
J.